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mikelewis

(4,591 posts)
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:47 AM Saturday

Worse than Bush.

I never thought it would be possible to imagine a group of people that were more putrid than the core of the Bush Administration.

Fucking Karl Rove. Dick fucking Cheney... remember the Devil himself? Right? Every sleazy cutthroat you could possibly imagine infested the swamp back then... And they were winning too.

I don't know how many remember how bad it really was... I honestly thought the U.S. was going to turn into the Empire from Star Wars and try to take over the world. It was an 8 year Pinky and the Brain episode. At the end of which... Iraq lay in ruins and we were stuck in Afganistan and couldn't get out.

Now... this shit is just completely unreal. How in the living hell do you cause so much chaos in just one year? It's Jan 10. It's only been a year...

In one year, he's turned ICE... which actually used to be one of the BEST organizations I have worked with in the past to a group I won't even speak thier name. It's clear, they are not a law enforcement entity any longer. They are a paramilitary brigade outfit now... that's all they are. Mask wearing thugs that are given license to kill anyone they label a terrorist. It's as simple as that.

I never imagined it possible that any group of people could be worse than Bush and his crew. Actually, they still have a long way to go now that I think about... Bush/Cheney have the blood of at least 5 million Iraqi's and I have no idea how many people in Afganistan on thier hands... and worse... much, much worse shit...

So no... no maybe they're not worse than all that yet but it's heading that way.

It's unreal what they get other Americans to do for money. I worked tangential to law enforcement all my life. We weren't the ones who needed to wear masks. I have no idea how they are getting away with this shit... how judges can so easily allow this... how people who actually have to live with others can support shooting a mother down in the street and calling it just and courageous.

I want to say that things are worse than Bush... I do but they aren't. They aren't.

These assholes maybe getting away with it now and maybe they will go to thier graves never seeing just how completely shitty they are. Take Kristi Noem for instance... She thinks she's beautiful and I have never seen a more uglier person in my life. Her soul is ugly. Her people are ugly.

There was a time... a long time ago... Darkness descended on America. It was bleak and what I believed was going to happen seemed so certain.

Now, I could never in a million years have predicted this insanity but I don't see it as the same disease. I don't fear Trump and MAGA. I see them as bitter and hateful... family members. One day, they'll just all die and I'll get back to building a better world without them.

I find it odd that I don't HATE George Bush. I should. I honestly should. If anyone deserved my hate, it's that guy. I don't though. I actually understand a lot of what happened and why it happened. I saw the events through a lens of time and now... I actually feel bad for the guy. I'm not sure he had any idea or control over the stream of events that swept him along.

I can't say there will ever be a time that I don't hate Trump. I hate his personality, his lack of character and the cult he's built. He's a blight more so than a real Empirical threat. He's not building anything... just tearing down and causing choas. He's trying to hurt anyone he doesn't like and bribe anyone who can help him.

Eventually... the world will grow tired of this show. Training a paramilitary group to hunt down and terrorize Latinos is a great TV. Shooting white women down in the street in rural America... I'm gonna say that's gonna get old quick.

It's clear the Trump administration is trying to incite a massacre. There's no other way to see thier actions. They are policing crowds with ICE who are not crowd control officers nor are they in that tactical stance. They carry no shields and the butts of thier rifles have red tape affixed to let others know... they're shooting to kill. Protesters are terrorist now and when they open fire... and they're gonna... you can see they want to so bad. When they do... that's when they'll finally be worse than Bush.

Be careful out there...

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